MSI on 8.1

[dkingman]

Wasn't sure where to post this question so apologies if it's in the wrong place.

I was wondering if MSI afterburner works on win8.1? It's a laptop and the gpu is a GTX 760M.

If not, are there any programes similar to it that people can recommend?

Thank you.

 

[PP Mguire]

Yes it runs on Windows 8.1, but I don't recommend trying to overclock your laptop GPU at all.

 

[patonb]

The MSI have a fan boost button, so overclocking for gaming and using the fan boost, it will be just fine.

I've bumped my 770m ~100mhz and heat was maybe 2 degrees.

 

[PP Mguire]

And I would consider you experienced enough to know not to push it too far. Idk this person, so just being precautious.

 

[dkingman]

Thanks. Just wanted it for fan control.

One more thing. I tried it out and when I drag it around the screen it's really laggy and slow. Any ideas?

Ok, this is strange. I installed it on 8.1 and the fan speeds/auto/user define are all greyed out and inaccesible. There is also no 'fan' tab in settings.

Anybody have any idea?

 

[PP Mguire]

Your fan is locked by the manufacturer of the laptop then.

 

[patonb]

As P said, fans are locked.

You may have some success using hwinfo64. If I disable ec support, I can control my laptops fans.

 

[PP Mguire]

I wonder if that'll work on my Toshiba. Gonna try it.

 

[patonb]

The ECSupport is here



As you can see, my 3 fans are control able


Notice how 1 fan is 1700 and the other is 3300.

 

[carnageX]

Neat, I'll have to check that out too.